Between the Sacred and Secular: The Role of Chinese Popular Deities in Creating Thirdspaces in Chinese Restaurants of Santiago de Chile

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dc.contributor.authorChan, Carol
dc.contributor.authorElvira Rios, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-23T19:53:36Z
dc.date.available2025-01-23T19:53:36Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractMaterial manifestations of the Chinese popular deities, Guanyin and Guan Gong, are ubiquitous in Cantonese-Chinese restaurants globally. Yet studies of Chinese popular religion among overseas Chinese have seldom focused on the diverse significance of these deities to Chinese migrants, nor the use of restaurant-spaces to house these deities. This article examines the presence and powers of such deities in Chinese restaurants of Santiago de Chile. We seek to understand how the presence or absence of Guanyin and Guan Gong figures specifically shapes migrant Chinese restauranteurs and workers' experience of the restaurants as particular kinds of protected, sacred/secular spaces, and how these deities might also affectively shape the restauranteurs' ways of being and inhabiting the restaurants. Based on semi-structured interviews with Chinese shopkeepers and workers, observation and photography of the spatial organization of 26 restaurants and the aesthetics of their deities, we argue that these restaurants are more than just their primary sources of livelihood. We argue that they approximate Soja's "thirdspaces" (1996), which on the one hand mediate their interactions with the city and its other residents, and on the other hand mediate relationships between humans in the earthly world and deities in the "other" parallel world.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17432200.2020.1722906
dc.identifier.eissn1751-8342
dc.identifier.issn1743-2200
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2020.1722906
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/100665
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000519177700001
dc.issue.numero2
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final186
dc.pagina.inicio162
dc.revistaMaterial religion
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectmigrants
dc.subjectmaterial religion
dc.subjectspace
dc.subjectChinese popular religion
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.titleBetween the Sacred and Secular: The Role of Chinese Popular Deities in Creating Thirdspaces in Chinese Restaurants of Santiago de Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen16
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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